S6 EP28: Tempo Work W/ Coach Isley
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
What does it mean to work on your tempo? It’s not about your music. It’s about adjusting the speed at which you do movements. Sometimes, there are real benefits to slowing down your movements. In today’s episode, Community Manager and Head Coach of TTSL, Isley Boyarski, returns to the podcast. You’ll learn what tempo work is, how it can help strengthen just a piece of a movement, and how you’re stimulated during tempo work.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- What Isley does
- No bad feelings
- What tempo work is
- Why there are benefits to slowing down your movement
- Breaking down the movement of a burpee
- Strengthening the piece of your movement giving you trouble in a pull-up
- Needing more than just tempo work
- The different stimulus in tempo work
- When your mobility allows you to go beyond where you can maintain tension
RELATED LINKS
- The CVG Nation app, for iPhone
- The CVG Nation app, for Android
- Our Fitness FB Group.
- Thick Thighs Save Lives Workout Programs
- Constantly Varied Gear's Workout Leggings
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's a great way to figure out where those holes are. |
| 0:04.2 | Like she's talking about, like when you get a little bit sloppier in your movement, tempo doesn't allow for that. |
| 0:09.2 | Nope. |
| 0:09.5 | Tempo allows for zero. |
| 0:11.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:11.4 | Zero sloppiness. |
| 0:12.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:12.7 | And like if you are being sloppy, like if once again, the squat, if you're being sloppy, it's almost like you come to a tempo and then a lot of people will bounce out. Yes. I don't know anyone that does that sometimes. |
| 0:27.9 | The big question is this. In a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals? |
| 0:40.3 | We are an army of hardworking women, changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 0:47.3 | Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the answers to how to make working out and eating well a part of your life. |
| 0:56.7 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. |
| 1:00.6 | Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:05.7 | Hi guys and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm Kelsey. And I'm Isley. |
| 1:10.5 | Hi, Isley. |
| 1:11.4 | Hi. Surprise. Surprise. It me. |
| 1:16.3 | Oops. I was taking my headphones off. Fuck them headphones. |
| 1:22.4 | If you don't know who Isley is, Isley is our head coach of TTSL, which is our daily programming, amongst other |
| 1:29.0 | things, community manager. Lots of community time. When we first, when Isley has been with CBG for a long |
| 1:36.6 | time, but when we first, I first asked her like, what do you think your job title should be? She was like, |
| 1:43.4 | I don't know. |
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